Oct 25, 2018 | Birds, Corvids
Crows Eat Crabapples but not the stems illustrates how the crow removes the stem before swallowing the apple. Watch the video carefully and you can see if the stem is present the crow presses the stem with its foot against the branch and pulls the apple off with its...
May 2, 2018 | Birds, Corvids
Northwestern Crow with a deformed beak was filmed at Rotary Park in Juneau on May 2, 2018. One study indicated that about 17% of the crows in Southeastern Alaska now have deformed beaks. For more information look...
Dec 29, 2017 | Birds, Corvids
We Pull Tails is a video showing a raven, crow and magpie pulling the tails of other creatures. Most seem to do to distract another bird from eating. This sometimes helps the tail puller get food. Some operate in pairs — one pulls, the other grabs the food. Also...
Aug 30, 2017 | Birds, Corvids
Crows Feeding on Salmon Carcasses shows Northwestern Crows and a young gull and raven feeding on salmon carcasses in...
May 26, 2017 | Birds, Corvids
Crows Capturing Sand Lance shows some of the effort that Northwestern Crows exhibit when digging Pacific sand lance out of the sand. This is a fairly common occurrence at minus tides in areas where sand lance bury themselves. Neither gulls or eagles have these same...
May 23, 2017 | Birds, Corvids
Northwestern Crow Incubating Eggs shows the role of both the female and male during this time. For more information on these crows look at Verbeek, N. A. and Robert W. Butler. (1999). Northwestern Crow (Corvus caurinus), The Birds of North America (P. G. Rodewald,...